Sexual assault in the third degree
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Ronald Leroy King v. The State of Wyoming (2023)
Most recently applied in The State of Wyoming v. Dixon Dean Cole (February 2026)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) An actor commits sexual assault in the third degree if, under circumstances not constituting sexual assault in the first or second degree:
(i) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 159, § 3.
(ii) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 159, § 3.
(iii) The actor subjects a victim to sexual contact under any of the circumstances of W.S. 6-2-302(a)(i) through (iv) or 6-2-303(a)(i) through (vii) and (ix) without inflicting sexual intrusion on the victim and without causing serious bodily injury to the victim.
Official source: Wyoming Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wyoming statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.